Wordpress as a CMS - Content Management System
Written by Tara: Freelance Designer on Thursday, 6 of September , 2007 at 8:08 am
I have been intending writing a bit about using Wordpress as a CMS for a while now. This post is made up of several parts -
1. Website examples of word of Wordpress being used as a CMS
As many of you probably know as well as being used as a blog Wordpress can also be used as a CMS or if you didn’t know here are a few examples of sites that use it. (Found via www.codex.wordpress.org). Click on any example to go to the sites.
2. My endeavours as a beginner to use Wordpress as a CMS
I have been experimenting with Wordpress as a content management system myself, all be it by adapting an existing template as my coding skills are still not very strong (so please be gentle with me).
My experiments have been on a site I wanted to create for my characters designs The Weather Pops. I was looking to create a simple website fairly quickly as I am attending the brand licensing show in October.
After searching for a suitable theme to start with I settled on the Blixed Wordpress Theme for its simplicity and the fact that the pages did not have a side bar, as I only wanted header navigation on my main pages. I tweaked the CSS on the pages so that the width of the content was the same width as the header.
The newer versions of Wordpress give you the ability to create a Static home page, ideal if you want to use Wordpress as a CMS. You can set this in your admin panel under OPTIONS - READING
What I was really looking for though was something that would allow me to specify both a static front page and a blog page as I wanted my website to function as a website first, with a secondary blog. I found a plugin which allowed me to do this called Filosofo Home-Page Control which allowed me to set both a home page and a “virtual” location for my blog. If you look at www.theweatherpops.com/blog it appears that the blog aspect of the site is in a blog folder, when in fact it isn’t, it is just part of the rest of the site.
The website is very basic but it gave me a taste of what could be done with Wordpress.
3. Using Wordpress as a CMS by Jennifer Farley from Laughing Lion Design
www.laughingliondesign.net
Jennifer is an experienced web and graphic designer and also a design instructor. Make sure you take a look at her blog for loads of photoshop tutorials. Jennifer’s Laughing Lion Design website also uses Wordpress as a CMS
I took my first tentative steps from using Blogger to Wordpress (WP) as my blogging platform about 8 or 9 months ago. Initially my plans were to use WP solely for blogging. I had read quite a bit about it and lots of the blogs I was visiting seemed to be using it so I decided to give it a go. Within a very short period of using WP I realised that it offered so much more than just making it easy to publish a blog.
So what else can you do with this baby?
It is possible to use WP as a complete Content Management System (CMS). Not only can you write and edit posts easily, you can also write, edit and add PAGES easily and for me that’s what makes it so great. This means that you can set up the design or look and feel of your site and continue to add as many web pages to your site as you need, when you need them. No more pleading with clients to REALLY think about each section they need before you start designing, if they forget something you can add it in later with little or no problems. Many people believe that they must have the blog posts on the front of their website if using WP but the fact is you can set any static page as your home page and have your blog “inside” the main site.
Another factor which makes WP a joy to work with is the number of superb plugins that are available. WP is an Open Source application which means it has been developed by a community of people who are genuinely interested in creating good quality, FREE applications. Plugins could be considered smaller, “helper” applications that plug in to WP and give extra functionality to your site. To find out more about the type of plugins available check out - www.codex.wordpress.org/plugins
So let’s take a look at a couple of examples of where you could use WP to manage different types of website.
a. News or Magazine Site
WP lends itself very well to this type of site. Feature articles can be kept on the front page with latest news listed chronologically on another part of the page. You could also set up different category pages such as Fashion or Sport. To see a WP theme using this style, check out Gridlock at www.hyalineskies.com
b. Gallery Site
As well as displaying images, gallery sites sometimes allow commenting (no problem for WP) and rating of individual items or lists of top rated items. This sort of application can be put together using WP with the WPG2 plugin - www.wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpg2/ which allows random, recent, daily, weekly, popular images, and albums to be displayed as image blocks in the Wordpress Sidebar.
c. Portfolio Site
Very similar to a gallery site, the portfolio site usually consists of one or more pages of thumbnails which when clicked allow the visitor to see a larger version of the work. You could of course include the WPG2 plugin to allow rating, but if you’d rather just show your work without them, a wonderful plugin that you can use is NextGen. This is a plugin I have used for many of my clients and I cannot tell you what a time saver it is compared to the old method of individually resizing thumbs and then linking them up. Great stuff.
d. E-Commerce Site
These days, it’s very important to be able to add some sort of E-commerce functionality to a site. Everyone has something to sell, don’t they? This type of site is generally made up of product page with descriptions and thumbnails. Also required is integration with some type of payment service. I use Paypal as the payment service for my clients because it really is simple to setup. But what about the E-commerce functionality? How does that tie in with WP? Well needless to say there is a plugin available …
The imaginatively titled “WP E-commerce” plugin is available for download from www.instinct.co.nz It’s one I’ve used on two client sites without too many hassles. The main problem I came across with this was the particular themes I had designed didn’t quite sit right with some of the product pages, but that was my fault rather than the plugin.
So that’s a short round up of just some of the ways you can take your WP blog and turn it into a fully fledged CMS with tons of functionality. You’ll find there are plugins for all kinds of things, the ones I listed above are some that I like and use for my own and my client sites, there are many more out there to play with.
4. A series of links about using Wordpress as a content management system and useful Wordpress Plugins
Semiologic
Semiologic is a Wordpress theme that has been designed so it can be used to build a website rather than just a blog - ie. act as a content management system. I downloaded it put it on a test site to experiment. It basically contains a series of wizards and set up features that you can activate without any coding knowledge. There are a lot of layout variations you can choose from - 1 column, 2 column, 3 column and you can choose the width of your website as well, there are a few skins build in too. What I though looked pretty good was how easily you could duplicate the skin and create/amend it to adapt to your own liking if you had a bit of CSS knowledge. Using widgets you can drag and drop what you have in the sidebar too. (if you choose to have a sidebar)
This article from Blaze Media talks you through 5 Wordpress Plugins which make it easier to use Wordpress as a Content Management system
Charity at Design adaptations gives a step by step guide to creating template pages in Wordpress -
“One of the ways I use Wordpress as a CMS is by way of custom templates. The kind of pages which can be added using template files that you define are virtually limitless. Say you want to showcase your Portfolio. You might need a layout vastly different from your default pages.” Charity has several other articles about using Wordpress including Configure Wordpress as a CMS.
David Peralty at Blogging Pro shares his 5 reasons that Wordpress should be used as a CMS.
A plugin from Instinct.co.nz which brings ecommerce to Wordpress. (as mentioned above by Jennifer)
J David Macor gives a step by step guide on how to get Wordpress running locally on a PC, ideal if you want to test your Wordpress website before releasing it publicly.
Michael Doig gives a step by step guide on how to get Wordpress running locally on a Mac, again ideal if you want to test your Wordpress website before releasing it publicly.
Blog helper has several different articles about using Wordpress as a CMS including how to use Wordpress to create a portfolio site
Brian Gardner has created a premium Wordpress theme called Revolution - a magazine style CMS theme.
This article from pqdb.com gives more information about working with categories, adding a FAQ page, a contact form and making sure the whole Wordpress website is searchable.
The Sandbox theme at Plaintxt.org is a very minimalistic theme ready to be styled in any way you wish. If you are looking for a fairly blank canvas to start your Wordpress CMS website and know a bit about CSS it could be a place to start.
David at David Airey has an article on how to customise your Wordpress Login page. This could be useful if you are using Wordpress to build a CMS website for one of your clients and want the login page to fit in with their corporate look.
Randa at Randa Clay Design discusses how she worked out how to rearrange wordpress navigation and hide elements she did not want to appear.
Char at Essential Keystrokes talks you through how she made a website using Wordpress as a Content Management System.
This article by John McCreesh at Onlamp.com can show you how to create a static home page if you are using an older version of Wordpress.
An article by Jonathan on how to put together a Wordpress Theme from scratch.
If any body else knows of any useful articles/plugins for using Wordpress as a CMS please let me know and I will add them to the list.
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Comment by Sanjeev Sharma
Made Thursday, 6 of September , 2007 at 8:25 am
Tara, Thanks a million for putting this post together… it’s a great help for someone like me, who’s been trying to do just this, but without much success 
Thanks once again!
Cheers,
Sanjeev
Comment by Ben Seven
Made Thursday, 6 of September , 2007 at 11:31 am
Fantastic work - I’ve dabbled with wordpress as a CMS before without much success - and all the resources you’ve rounded up will be very useful too!
Comment by Tara: Freelance Designer
Made Thursday, 6 of September , 2007 at 11:33 am
Hi Sanjeev and Ben, thanks I hope its helpful
Comment by James
Made Thursday, 6 of September , 2007 at 1:19 pm
The one problem I have with Wordpress is that it is a resource hog. The hit your SQL database takes is amazing. I’ve been using WP for a few years now and my site has gone “down” more than a few times with heavy traffic - losing its database connection. I finally figured out what it was after searching for hours in various WP-related forums.
I’m considering a switch to Drupal as it is more robust and much more configurable. The only problem with Drupal is that it is much more difficult to work with and I need help from a friend to get it up and running.
In any case, nice post. Thanks for all the links!
Comment by Chris Coyier
Made Thursday, 6 of September , 2007 at 4:31 pm
Great post! I think WordPress makes a very capable Content Management System. That’s what it basically is out-of-the-box. It’s just how you skin it that makes it feel more CMS-y than Bloggy. That’s what I’ve tried to do on Reader Help, a site intended to be search-focused, so people could search for error codes and problems with Adobe Reader. This really doesn’t need to be a “blog”, so I just reskinned it more like a CMS.
Comment by Char
Made Thursday, 6 of September , 2007 at 4:51 pm
Tara - fantastic round up of resources for using WP as a CMS. I have a feeling I will be checking them all out as I expect to be doing more of this as time goes on.
Regarding WP as a resource hog - most of the sites I would use WP for when designing a CMS are not the kind of sites going after Digg levels of traffic or anything of the sort. I would like to use it more to give clients the ability to make easy text changes rather than spending my days doing site maintenance.
Comment by The Happy Rock
Made Thursday, 6 of September , 2007 at 5:03 pm
Very interesting, thanks for the insight. I really like the wordpress platform and have espoused it benefits to a couple of friends. This will be a good resource for the flexibility that you can get using wordpress. Your WeatherPops site works really well, and you would never know it was a wordpress site.
PS - The Andy Roddick link isn’t working.
Comment by Tara: Freelance Designer
Made Thursday, 6 of September , 2007 at 5:22 pm
Hi James, I have noticed my database is hogged a bit by Wordpress, but like Char said a lot of websites are not necessarily going to have big traffic levels or have new content added quite so much as blogs. I would be interested to hear how you get on with Drupal, I dabbled but it went a bit over my head.
Hi Chris, thanks for example of what you have done with Wordpress
Hi Char, thanks I would be interested in seeing any new sites you do with Wordpress, maybe you could do an update on your previous posts, when you have produced more sites?
Hi The Happy Rock
Thanks for the feed back - and I fixed the link - thanks for letting me know.
Comment by Randa Clay
Made Thursday, 6 of September , 2007 at 6:13 pm
Really thorough article Tara - nice work. I enjoyed visiting your cute Weather Pops site. I’m going to have to check out the Semiologic theme. Thanks for the mention too!
Comment by tray
Made Thursday, 6 of September , 2007 at 6:31 pm
i love it! i’m glad i’m not the only wordpress-as-a-CMS freak out there. 
most of this i knew.. but it’s nice to have all this information in one spot. *bookmarks*
Comment by Ozh
Made Thursday, 6 of September , 2007 at 7:53 pm
“Wordpress as a CMS” sounds to me just about silly as “Firefox as a web browser”. Wordpress *IS* a CMS, damnit. You post text, image, files, whatever, and manage them. You manage content. How the f* can Wordpress NOT be a CMS ??? Seriously, I don’t get it.
Comment by The Happy Rock
Made Thursday, 6 of September , 2007 at 7:59 pm
@ozh - I think people agree that it fits the definiton of a CMS, but the problem is that people think of it as just blog software. Most people aren’t willing to use create a ‘real’ site, or don’t no how to use the platform to accomplish what they want. Just my two cents.
Comment by tray
Made Thursday, 6 of September , 2007 at 8:04 pm
@ozh technically wordpress was written as a blogging software, not a CMS. yes, a blog is technically “content” but it’s not considered the same as a content management system. and why isn’t it? i think it’s mainly just a language/definition issue. heck.. technically a file cabinet is a “content management system” but if you say “i’d like to buy that black CMS” they’d probably look at you funny in the store.
Comment by johno
Made Thursday, 6 of September , 2007 at 9:03 pm
What a wonderful post. I’ve been thinking about this topic for some time, so it’s great now to have all the resources I need to really look seriously as using WP for a CMS. That Semiologic looks particularly interesting. You’ve obviously put a lot of work into this post. Thanks!
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Comment by johno
Made Thursday, 6 of September , 2007 at 9:19 pm
Sorry to double post, but I must answer Ozh:
Rather than confuse things and argue semantics, let’s just say that WordPress is not a CMS. It can be used as one with a little tweaking, but it is not designed as one, and neither is it promoted as a CMS solution. It is a blogging solution that can be bent into working as a simple CMS. If you were to compare WP with those products that are actually labelled as CMS, then you’d see the difference.
Your analogy is seriously flawed; I compile images, text and files with my mail client. However, my mail client is not a CMS.
If WP were a CMS, then we wouldn’t need posts like these; however, it’s not designed as a CMS, so the resources and pointers above can aid us in getting this wonderful blogging platform to mimic some of the functions of existing CMSs.
Comment by Ozh
Made Thursday, 6 of September , 2007 at 10:28 pm
Let me sum the article up:
1) Wordpress is not a CMS
2) but if you install some plugins, a new theme, change the default home page, write pages, wow, it is a CMS!
Which basically means:
1) Wordpress is not a CMS
2) but if you do just what it was intended for, it’s a CMS!
It’s like saying: Firefox is not a web browser. But hey! if you add a modem and an internet connection, it’s a web browser!!
Comment by Louisa Nicholson
Made Thursday, 6 of September , 2007 at 11:20 pm
Comment by Huhi
Made Friday, 7 of September , 2007 at 3:01 am
Great post. Very well organized, nice job.
WP is a very sad CMS, though. You can get what you want eventually, but it’s in the most inelegant and dated way possible. I just decided to leave WP in my professional life and stop submitting patches. The admin API is a joke. The dev team is stubborn and in love with a system that needs a major overhaul. The dev cycle itself is broken. Scores of patches and enhancements that are COMPLETED never see the light of day.
I’m hoping the MovableType guys scare the quality back into WP. They seem to be moving toward a much more modular approach.
Comment by awflasher
Made Friday, 7 of September , 2007 at 3:42 am
However, I think WordPress is just WordPress, though I love it so much, it’s not a born CMS.
I love your amazing post, but I don’t think I will do so, there are so many reasons
Comment by Mark Penix
Made Friday, 7 of September , 2007 at 7:46 am
Very nice round up Tara! It’s great seeing some real flexibility with WordPress… and even more amazing that some high profile companies are using the platform.
I especially enjoyed the Ford site… very nice indeed. And your experiment with The Weather Pops is really cute.
Comment by abhi
Made Friday, 7 of September , 2007 at 8:17 am
a beautiful and very helpful article. even though there are many plugins out there, hearing from someone who has actually used them is worth a lot. thanks!
Comment by reese
Made Friday, 7 of September , 2007 at 8:45 am
The timing of this article is perfect; just what I needed.
I tend to use other CMS systems but am looking into leveraging WP in this way. Your examples were helpful and turned what was an otherwise-daunting task into something more manageable.
My one complaint is something similar to what Huhi noted: it seems to take quite a bit of wrangling to turn WP into a CMS, whereas other CMS’ offer more ‘out of the box’ solutions to the issues such as differing templates, custom field management, etc.
Comment by Tara: Freelance Designer
Made Friday, 7 of September , 2007 at 8:49 am
Hi Everyone, it seems while I have been sleeping the “is Wordpress a CMS or not” has stirred up a bit of a debate
I will have to leave that to you decide. If you do intend experimenting with Wordpress I hope the links will help
My thanks to Jennifer who put a lot of work into her piece sbout all the Wordpress plugins she used. I had been curious to hear if the Ecommerce plugin worked and now I know someone who has tried it successfully.
Comment by indobloger
Made Friday, 7 of September , 2007 at 9:20 am
Wordpress is a blog platform. I use it for my blog. For CMS, I use Joomla.
Comment by webtuga
Made Friday, 7 of September , 2007 at 9:23 am
You just need to have a portal theme working at a blog engine.
Wordpress do that, and you can do the portal theme.
Comment by Susan
Made Friday, 7 of September , 2007 at 11:35 am
Hi,
A friend just gave me a link to your site. Very good stuff! I just created my very first Wordpress theme and I’m using it as a CMS. I’m pleased with how it’s going so far. I have used the WP Commerce plugin for one other site and it works nicely. My only question at this point is…how can I have the WP Commerce stuff only show on a specific page instead of the whole WP site? I’ll have to work on that one a bit.
I can’t wait to look through all the stuff you have here! And I love The Weather Pops! Cute!
Comment by Tara: Freelance Designer
Made Friday, 7 of September , 2007 at 11:57 am
Hi Indobloger - thanks for your comment, I have dabbled with Joomla but found it quite complex.
Hi Webtuga - thanks for yourr comment, which portal themes do yuu recommend?
Hi Susan
Thanks for visiting. I have never used the ecommerce plugin but maybe someone else here can do.
Thanks for your comment on The Weather Pops
Comment by Jennifer
Made Friday, 7 of September , 2007 at 12:57 pm
Thanks Tara. Teamwork! Maybe we can work together on another article in the future.
Comment by Tara: Freelance Designer
Made Friday, 7 of September , 2007 at 1:01 pm
That sounds good Jennifer
Comment by Tesss
Made Friday, 7 of September , 2007 at 3:23 pm
Hi Tara,
thanks for your comment a while ago, I’m a bit busy lately and didn’t have much time to leave a comment, had a peek instead. I noticed theweatherpops.com and had a look at the website, awesome!!! They look adorable on the children’s clothes. Good luck 2nd/3rd of October. I had a quick chat with my friend but no results just yet… sorry…
Comment by Tara: Freelance Designer
Made Friday, 7 of September , 2007 at 3:32 pm
Hi Tess
Thanks, I’m glad you like the Weather Pops site - and thanks for asking your friend too, much appreciated.
Comment by Len
Made Friday, 7 of September , 2007 at 3:36 pm
Great post, and I love the weather pops! Just wanted to let you know that on the weather pops bio page, storm is listed as being able to create “lightening” when you probably meant “lightning.” All the best!
Comment by Tara: Freelance Designer
Made Friday, 7 of September , 2007 at 3:51 pm
Cheers Len, spelling was never my strong point 
Comment by Jonathan
Made Friday, 7 of September , 2007 at 5:11 pm
There was an excellent list on BloggingBits.com a few days ago on the topic of “WordPress Theme Creation” - I was going to drop a link to it, but the site is temporarily down.
For those looking to travel the DIY route with using WordPress as a CMS, knowing how to easily put together a WordPress theme could come in handy.
You’re welcome to share my humble tutorial on the subject and I’d encourage you to put together a quick list of some of the excellent other tutorials as well. You can take a look at mine at:
http://jonathanwold.com/tutorials/wordpress_theme/
It’s exciting to watch the WordPress platform grow :).
Thanks for the excellent post Tara and keep up the good work!
-Jonathan
Comment by Tara: Freelance Designer
Made Friday, 7 of September , 2007 at 5:49 pm
Hi Jonathan, I will have to remember to take a look at BloggingBits.com, and thanks for your link, I have added it into the post.
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Comment by Rose
Made Friday, 7 of September , 2007 at 11:03 pm
I have to agree with James there. Great article though.
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Comment by Tracey Grady
Made Saturday, 8 of September , 2007 at 4:26 am
Thanks Tara for a great article, it’s something I could have done with two weeks ago! I have set up a Wordpress blog site before and was searching recently for resources on utilising Wordpress for CMS purposes, but I wasn’t satisfied with much of the information I found at the time. I have started looking into using Textpattern to build CMS sites because it allows you to incorporate your own CSS the way you’ve coded it. But I’m still very interested in Wordpress and may go back to it.
For anyone who wants to get information on the range of CMS programs out there, http://www.opensourcecms.com
I also recently found a interesting site showcasing CMS themes (Wordpress and others) at http://www.fresheezy.com
Ozh, you’re splitting hairs. The distinction between CMS and blogging functions is well established on the web, even if blogging is one example of how a CMS can be used.
Comment by Tara: Freelance Designer
Made Saturday, 8 of September , 2007 at 9:08 am
Hi Tracey
I haven’t really looked at textpattern, how did you get on, is it easy to use?
Thanks for the links too.
Comment by Tracey Grady
Made Saturday, 8 of September , 2007 at 10:29 am
I haven’t got much further than installing the files yet. It looks like it’s going to be fairly easy to use, so long as you’re comfortable building sites with CSS. I’ll let you know how I go when I get a chance to make some headway.
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Made Sunday, 9 of September , 2007 at 1:50 am
Interesting article Tara. For the record, I think WordPress IS a CMS, so technically Ozh is right, but we all know that WordPress is a blogging platform and what you mean by this article is that it can be used for wider applications than just blogging.
I set up a friends business site using WordPress - it is a very simple site of just 19 pages, but it is all within WordPress which gives my friend (who is not web-savvy) a really simple CMS that works brilliantly. If I had used something like Joomla I think it would have been overkill.
Comment by David Mackey
Made Sunday, 9 of September , 2007 at 5:14 am
I think WordPress is technically a CMS, as well as simple blog software. But good article. Informative.
Comment by Simonne
Made Sunday, 9 of September , 2007 at 9:37 am
This is a great article and it’s going to help me, as I also used Wordpress as a CMS for some sites. What I’ve noticed so far, is that on pages it is not possible to use active code (such as queries from a MYSQL database) - the solution I found was to create separate page templates for those sections of the site, and to put the queries there. It worked just fine.
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Comment by kat
Made Sunday, 9 of September , 2007 at 11:07 am
Excellent and very helpful post Tara. I’ve been intending on redesigning my graphic design portfolio site and I know now for sure I will be using a WP template as a CMS. My husband uses Joomla for his personal site and you are right, its a lot more complex than WP.
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Comment by Rose Sylvia
Made Monday, 10 of September , 2007 at 4:53 am
Thank goodness DoshDosh Sphunn this article. I’ve been planning to go find one on this topic and DoshDosh writes and would recommend exactly the kind of comprehensive information I seek out.
I believe that almost every site designed (or redesigned) in the future will be either based on WordPress (or possibly something very similar) or be on a store platform such as Volusion or Prostores.
Comment by Nishanthe
Made Monday, 10 of September , 2007 at 5:37 am
I think WP is a CMS by default. it has all the ingredients of a CMS. Anyways reallu cool links, specially http://autoshows.ford.com/
Comment by Sean
Made Monday, 10 of September , 2007 at 6:19 am
Cool! I didn’t even know you could do that to be honest. I mean, I had thought about don’t know enough to put it to action lol. Great article (still need to read through it all though )
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